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War on drugs

Kill the Messenger – How the CIA financed a dirty war by selling crack

Gary Webb (1955-2004), the investigative journalist who reported cocaine trafficking by the CIA in 1996, is portrayed in the motion picture, Kill the Messenger, by Jeremy Renner which is released this month.

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US “war on drugs” is a war against black people – Branson

In June 2011 we reported on an excellent lecture by Michelle Alexander on how the so-called drugs war  has been used to create a racial caste system in the United States of America. Whilst other human rights organisations shy away from the issue, HRI calls for an end of the “war on drugs.”